Battle Through the Heavens: Inward Cultivation, Crying Xiao Yan

If you really can't collect them all, then go to the Mittel auction.

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Soon, not long after, a servant brought some medicinal herbs to Xiao Yang.

These are all the first-grade medicinal materials that the Xiao family has stored in their warehouse.

Without the slightest hesitation, he set up another mission.

[Mission: Obtain a batch of medicinal herbs from the Xiao family. Reward: A medicinal herb field.]

After the servants brought in all the medicinal herbs, a system notification sounded.

[Mission: Obtain a batch of medicinal herbs from the Xiao family. Reward: A medicinal herb field. Completed. Claim reward?]

Xiao Yang did not hesitate. After the servant left, he collected the reward from the dowry ring along with the dowry.

Then, he looked at a task that was not yet completed on his system panel.

[Task: Personally test ten types (5/10) of medicinal herbs. Reward: Pharmacology Proficiency +1]

He had previously bought only a dozen or so kinds of medicinal herbs at the Mittel auction house.

Therefore, the pharmacology proficiency task is still a little short of completion.

He took out five herbs from the medicinal materials he had just acquired that he had not yet tried.

Soon, a system notification appeared in my mind.

[Task: Personally test ten kinds of medicinal herbs. Reward: Pharmacology Proficiency +1. Completed. Claim reward?]

He did not collect it immediately.

Because his pharmacology proficiency has reached 9/10 of the beginner level.

After receiving it, your pharmacology proficiency will reach the minor level.

[Task: Achieve minor mastery in pharmacology proficiency; Reward: "Complete Explanation of Medicinal Herbs"]

He only claimed the reward after the task was set up.

The next moment, a wealth of pharmacological experience, insights, and information about the properties of medicinal herbs flooded into his mind.

This time, it took him a full hour to fully absorb this information.

Because of absorbing too much information, Xiao Yang even felt his brain was a little bloated.

It might be that its brain is starting to develop.

[Task: Achieve Minor Mastery in Pharmacology Proficiency; Reward: "Complete Explanation of Medicinal Herbs". Completed. Claim Reward?]

Just as he received the information, the system also sent a notification.

He didn't hesitate and took it directly.

The next moment, hundreds of books appeared directly in the system space.

Holy crap!

Looking at the hundreds of books in the system space, Xiao Yang's mentality began to crumble.

This so-called "Complete Explanation of Medicinal Herbs" actually consists of more than a hundred books!

Each one is like a dictionary.

At this moment, Xiao Yang could only pray; the screen was full of pictures with very little text.

He took out one of the books marked "1" and opened it.

This is the first book in the "Complete Explanation of Chinese Herbal Medicines" series.

It starts with an introduction to the book.

The Complete Guide to Medicinal Herbs contains a wealth of information about the medicinal properties, pharmacology, growing environment, and cultivation methods of all medicinal herbs in the Douqi Continent.

After reading the introduction, he continued flipping through the pages.

The next moment, everything went black before Xiao Yang's eyes.

It's filled with tiny print, with only a few pictures as examples.

He stubbornly flipped through the pages, and there they were!

Then he took out a few more books, and they were the same!

Now, Xiao Yang's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was completely dead.

Even after time travel, I can't escape the fate of memorizing texts.

Moreover, the books they were memorizing were medical books!

No wonder people always said in my past life that if you advise someone to study medicine, you'll be struck by lightning.

There's nothing I can do but watch it slowly later.

He began to establish the mission.

[Task: Memorize all information about 300 kinds of medicinal herbs; Reward: Pharmacology Proficiency +1]

[Task: Refine ten portions of the Heat-Immune Ointment; Reward: Grade 1 Pill Proficiency +1, one Ice-Fire Demon Bamboo]

Chapter 35 "Spirit Planting Method"

He plans to dedicate some time each day to studying the pharmacology of medicinal herbs.

Now, he plans to first refine a heat- and cold-resistant ointment so that he can become a first-class alchemist recognized by the system.

The process of making the heat- and cold-resistant ointment is actually quite difficult.

However, the medicinal herbs are easy to obtain.

As the name suggests, its effect is such that applying it to the body can keep you protected from the cold and heat for a week.

Of course, this only works at normal temperatures.

Xiao Yang estimates that it can withstand temperatures ranging from minus 20 degrees Celsius to 40 degrees Celsius.

If you're going to places like volcanoes or glacial lakes, it won't be as effective.

However, even so, it's still pretty good.

It should be very popular among wealthy people with relatively weak cultivation levels.

Moreover, this thing doesn't cost much to produce, and it won't be very expensive to sell.

Xiao Yang took out the six medicinal materials for the Cold and Heat Inhibiting Ointment and began to refine them.

With his current proficiency in first-grade pills, although this is only his first time refining the Cold and Heat Inhibiting Ointment, the success rate should still be over 50%.

Soon, the extraction of the six medicinal herbs was completed.

Without hesitation, he began the process of fusing the pills.

Fortunately, the procedure was successful.

Before Xiao Yang could even take the ointment out of the alchemy furnace, a system notification sounded in his mind.

[Quest: Become a Grade One Alchemist. Reward: Basic Alchemy Talent +1, "Spiritual Plant Techniques". Completed. Claim reward?]

He did not collect it immediately, but first took out the heat-resistant ointment from the alchemy furnace, divided it into two hundred portions, and put them into wooden boxes.

This portion can be used approximately five times.

After putting away the wooden box, Xiao Yang directly claimed his reward.

The next moment, a scroll appeared in his system space.

He also discovered that his tasks related to alchemy were gradually changing.

Previously, it took refining ten first-grade pills to gain one point of proficiency, but now it only takes refining nine.

The workload for tasks involving refining medicinal herbs and memorizing their pharmacology has been reduced by 10%.

He knew it was probably due to his rudimentary talent in alchemy.

However, what he cared about most at the moment was the so-called "Spirit Plant Method"!

He couldn't wait to retrieve the newly acquired scroll from the system space.

The scroll is emerald green.

He opened it, and inside was an introduction to the "Spiritual Plant Method".

The Spirit Plant Technique is neither a cultivation method nor a regular fighting technique.

This scroll of spiritual plant magic should be classified as a secret art.

The Spirit Plant Technique is not for fighting.

However, after Xiao Yang learned about the contents of the Spirit Plant Method, his eyes were filled with excitement.

The combination of spiritual plant cultivation and alchemists is simply perfect!

Especially since he also had medicinal herb fields.

The function of the Spirit Plant Method is very simple: it is used to cultivate medicinal herbs and accelerate their growth.

Of course, the more precious the medicinal material, the more difficult it is to accelerate its growth.

At the same time, the stronger one's strength, the easier it is to accelerate the growth of a medicinal herb.

Xiao Yang looked at the introduction to the spiritual plant method and couldn't wait to stick the scroll to his forehead.

This scroll contains only some information about spiritual plant magic. To learn it, you need to use your soul perception to receive the contents of the scroll.

Soon, a flood of information entered Xiao Yang's mind.

The secrets of the spiritual plant method are quite troublesome to learn.

After receiving this information, he noticed something.

Although the spiritual plant method is very suitable for alchemists, normal alchemists basically cannot use the spiritual plant method.

Because, in order to use the spirit plant method, one must possess wood-attribute fighting spirit.

The alchemist possessed a trace of wood-attribute fighting spirit.

However, most of them are fire-attribute fighting spirit.

The wood-elemental fighting spirit is only a trace.

This not only fails to accelerate the ripening of medicinal herbs, but may also burn them.

If the method of cultivating spiritual plants were to spread, the status of cultivators with a wood element might also see a significant improvement.

However, it is impossible for it to spread in a short period of time.

The spiritual power on this scroll has disappeared.

Making a single volume wouldn't be so easy for Xiao Yang.

After storing the scroll in the system space, Xiao Yang began searching in the virtual world of Yixingbang.

Soon, he found a medicinal herb with seeds.

The medicinal herbs he currently possesses are mostly low-grade, and the seeds are even less valuable.

Therefore, many medicinal herbs have seeds on them.

He took a seed of the blood-clotting flower and placed it in his palm.

Next, he began to create the mission.

[Task: Accelerate the growth of ten Blood Clotting Flowers; Reward: Spirit Plant Magic Proficiency +1]

For a Blood Clotting Flower to mature, it normally takes at least three years, and most require five years.

After setting up the mission, Xiao Yang began to transform the fighting spirit within his body into wood-attribute fighting spirit.

Then, he began to practice Qigong according to the methods recorded in the spiritual plant method.

Soon, the wood-attribute fighting spirit within his body began to slowly gather towards the blood-coagulating flower seed in his hand.

The first step in the spiritual plant method is to germinate the medicinal seed.

Some specific medicinal herbs are more sensitive to their environment and need to be planted in a suitable environment before they can germinate.